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C = Calanchi, Alessandra (1998). '"Others will follow":
lo strano caso di Jekyll, Hyde
e Sherlock Holmes'. Rivista di Studi Vittoiani
[Pescara, Italy] 3v: 133-143.
D = Danahay,
Martin A. (1999). The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press
D&C: Danahay, Martin A. & Alex Chisholm (2005). Jekyll
and Hyde Dramatized. Jefferson. McFarland.
G = Geduld, Harry M. (1983). The Definitive ‘Dr Jekyll and
Mr Hyde’ Companion. New York/London: Garland; pp. 214-7.
Lin= Linehan, Katherine (ed.) (2003). Strange Case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: an authoritative text, backgrounds and context,
performance adaptations, criticism. New York/London: W.W. Norton &
Company (Norton Critical Editions).
M= Miller, Renata Kobetts
(2005). Recent Interpretations of Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Why and How This Novel Continues to Affect Us.
Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.
M&F = McNally, Raymond T. & Radu R. Florescu (2000). In
Search of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Los Angeles: Renaissance
Books.
N = Nollen, Scott Allen (1994). Robert Louis Stevenson: Life,
Literature and the Silver Screen. New York: McFarland.
Odell = Odell, George C.D. (1927-49). Annals of the New York Stage. New
York: Columbia University Press. 15 vols.
P = Pinkston, C. Alex, jr. (1986). ‘The Stage
Premiere of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. Theatre Research 14: 21-43
Pierce = Pierce, Jason Adam (1999). 'Penny-Wise and
Virtue-Foolish': Robert Louis Stevenson and the Late Victorian Publishing
Industry'. PhD dissertation U of South Carolina.
R = Rose, Brian A. (1996). Jekyll and Hyde Adapted. Dramatizations of
Cultural Anxiety. London: Greenwood
V&H: Veeder, William & Gordon Hirsch (eds) (1988). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde after One Hundred
Years. Chicago: U Chicago P.
1887 Sullivan, Thomas Russell. Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
[First
performance at the Boston Museum 9-13 May 1887; first New York performance at
Madison Square Theater 12 September-1 October 1887,
followed by a US tour 3 october 1887-25 June 1888 (M
lists performances in New York and Washington 1887, in Boston and New York
1888, in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, New Jersey 1897; then in North
Carolina 1904, at an unlocated “Garden Theater, Colonial Theatre” and in New York 1906). Performed
in London at the Lyceum Theatre 4 August 1888 but replaced at the end of
September because it was not very successful.
Written for Richard Mansfield (who starred in revivals until 1906, Lin p. 170,
M pp. 229-30).
Adds female roles: Mrs Lanyon, Agnes Carew (daughter of Sir Danvers, J’s
fiancée), Rebecca Moore (Hyde’s evil housekeeper); H kills Carew, the father of
Agnes, who then urges Jekyll to seek justice for the crime; Hyde alone in his
room at the end commts suicide; ‘dramatizes the
problematic competitiveness among men’ (M p. 25).To make the protagonist a sympathetic figure,
Jekyll becomes ‘a melancholy young student of the Hamlet type’ (Pierce: 166).
The script is published by D&C collated from (i)
British Library Add. 53409B (London production), (ii) Smithsonian Institution
(Washington, D.C.), National Museum of American History, Mansfield Costume
Collection 62906, Catalog 19526) (Boston production),
(iii) New York Public Library Research dept., Theatre Collection RM 4894
(revised American version); see D&C, 43.R, 157, says the orig. typescript is in the Theatre Collection, NPL,
Lincoln Center Branch & is microfilmed in the
Library of the Lawrence & Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State Univ.,
Columbus. There are also unpublished notes of the interpretation in the Huntingdon Library. For a study of the script
and staging, see P and D&C; For dates of performances 1887-1906 see M 229-230,
n59, N 163-4; N pp. 164-5 and Lin p. 152 give brief summaries of the script.; programme at the Beinecke Library. G2.
Athens State University (Athens, Alabama), 2007, first performance in recent times.
Also 2008 as ‘second annual Halloween theatrical performance’, dir. Tom McDougle, Oct. 30-31 2008,
Griffin Auditorium, McCandless Hall, Athens University.
]
1887 Dr Freckle and Mr Snide [Dockstader's Minstrel Hall, New York City, Oct. 3 1887; G3; Paul Wilstach in Richard Mansfield, the Man and the Actor (1908) says that after Mansfield’s success ‘Other versions of every type, from indifferent to unmentionable, sprung up like mushrooms all over the country’, qu. D&C 83]
1888 Bandmann,
Daniel [M (p. 45)gives the author as
John McKinney] Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
[Niblo's Garden, New York 12 March 1888 (D&C: vii; 13
March for Mehew (Letters 6: 125n and Pierce:
169); Geduld (and from him, M) has Amphion Academy, N.Y., 19th March 1888), Boston
Theatre 9 April 1888 (M), then Opera Comique, London
in 6 August 1888 (M also lists a performance in the Opera House, Savannah,
Georgia, 1902.
As in Mansfield’s version, Hyde kills the father (here
a vicar) of his fiancée, Sybil, at the end of Act I, who then seeks justice for
her father’s death and is present at the end for a melodramatic adieu; this
version emphasizes ‘competition among men’ while women appeal to each other’s
sympathy (M pp. 24-5). Includes several comic scenes. ‘The play identifies
Hyde’s vice as sexual desire. Much of the action takes place between the
vicarage and the neighboring church, and religion, as
well as romance, works to mitigate the novel’s sense of pervasive corruption’
(M 24), Hyde is not met by a Enfield cruising the streets of London, but by the
Vicar returning from visiting a sick parishioner.
The script (British Library Add. 53408K) is published in D&C; cf. also N; G4.
Pierce (173) claims that Bandmann’s Hyde with wild
hair, hideous false teeth and animal leaps influenced 20th century
interpretations. Len Spencer recites a part of the Transformation Scene from “Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” from the Bandmann version,
in a recording (c. 1905) issued by the Columbia Phonograph Company. ]
[1888 two productions in Croydon (Theatre Royal, by actor/manager Howard Poole) & Merthyr Tydfil (no further details)—the first (and probably the second) stopped by Longmans (in favour of Mansfield, because it violated copyright laws) and never performed [both recorded on same day, 26 July 1888; G5 and G6; see D&C 134, M 45 n61]]
1888 Grossmith,
George. The Real Case of a Hyde and Seekyll.
[Royalty Theatre, London, 3 September 1888, G7 (G has Hyde
and Jekyll); originally planned for Toole’s Theatre in May 1886 ‘The capabilities of Mr.
Louis Stevenson’s “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll” for the purposes of political
satire are obvious. Mr. George Grossmith has taken
advantage of this to make it the basis of a trifle that will be produced
shortly by Mr. Toole.’ [Daily News May 16 1886, p. 3], but postponed because of
illness (The Era 22 May & 19 June 1886);
Pierce, 171n, claims the 1888 play was called ‘the Phantom’, but D&C disagree (p. viii n) and
identify it as a ‘musical farce’ based on JH, amended to take account of the
Mansfield and Bandman London productions. M cites a
ref to the play in the Lord Chamberlain’s Plays Index in the British Library:
LCP 53358 (L). The MS is at Yale (B 7231), where a note confirms the title (wrongly recorded in Prideaux) and the date of first performance ]
1888 adaptation performed in Chicago with A.S. Lipman in the lead roles [G8, M 45]
1888 adaptation performed by actor/manager Marlande Clarke in New York, Rochester, Chicago, Brooklyn 1888-90 (Odell, 14: 174).
1893 adaptation with Charles T. Fletcher in the title roles, supported by his pupils in the other roles [Hermann’s Theatre, New York, 25 May 1893; Odell 15: 341.]
1894 [Chicago Manuscript Co.] adaptation with Al MacKaye in the title roles [Temple Theatre, Lewistown, Pennsylvania; Dec. 5, 1894; G10, M 46]
1894 Elton, Edmund (adaptor and chief actor). [The Union Hall, Boston; G11, M 46]
1896 Saintsbury, H.A.. The Doctor's Shadow. [Princess Theatre, Acrington, England; Jan. 2, 1896; 'suggested by Stevenson's work'; G12]
1897 [the 1904 Fish version was
originally listed here]
1898 Fletcher, Charles Leonard. [Bowdon Square Theater, Boston; G13; M 46 suggests this may be the same
production as that by Charles T. Fletcher in 1893]
1898 Tanner, Edwin. [Grand Opera House, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; G14]
19** Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (n.d. 19--) [(ms prompt book in New York Public Library NCOF (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)]
1901 stage adaptation for Thomas E. Shea (as J/H) [1901, Academy of Music, Washington, DC; 1905, State Street Theatre, Trenton, New Jersey; G16; M (p. 230 n65) identifies the 1901 and 1905 play as the same, with reference to the Theater Collection Scrapbooks in Princeton University Library]
1904 Fish, Luella Forepaugh & George F. Fish (1904). Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Or a Mis-Spent Life. A Drama in Four Acts. Adapted and Arranged from...Stevenson's Novel. NY: Samuel French. [orig. typescript in the Lawrence & Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State Univ., Columbus; R says this is ‘unpublished’ though this entry refers to an edition by French of NY. Not in G; M&F (170) say this was produced at Forepaugh’s Theater, Philadelphia. The father of J’s fiancée is the vicar (as in the Bandmann version) and she calls for justice after the murder of her father (as in the Mansfield and Bandmann versions); brief summary of plot with ‘heavy racist overtones’ in M&F 171; longer summary in M 29-30: like the Bandmann version, the father of Jekyll’s fiancée (Alice) is a vicar who is murdered by Hyde; set in a suburban neighbourhood. 1904 is the date given by R and M&F, but M has 1897; filmed in Chicago in 1908.]
1904 Stratton, Campbell. Dr Jekyll and MR Hyde. [Castle Square Theatre, Boston, Mass., 4-11 July 1904; identified by M (p. 230, n66) on OCLC WorldCat]
1905 stage adaptation with James Durkin as J/H [Proctor's 58th Street Theatre; July 17, 1905; G15]
1905 Thomas, Eugene ['no other information', G17; omitted by M]
1906 Ober, Adelade. Ithe George Ober as J/H [West End Theatre, London, June 16 1906; G18]
1907[dramatization at the Globe Theatre, Boston; G19]
1908 Morton, E. & J. F. Cunniver (1908). The Mysterious Case of Lord Jekyll and Edward Hyde. [Intimen Teater, Vienna; the basis for the 1914 Max Mack film]
1910 Carr, Joseph William Comyns (1910). [Queens Theatre, London; H.B. Irving (Henry Irving’s son) as Jekyll, Dorothea Baird as Mrs Jekyll; G gives première as Jan. 29 1910, but D&C (p. 191) say Lord Chamberlain’s licence issued on Jan. 31 1910, so first performance would have been in February; M (p.30) gives the first performance as April 1910; script (British Library Add. 65880C) is published in D&C; the following items in the NPL catalog ‘NCOF+ ZZ22022 and ZZ22017 identified as "Mansfield R. Dr.Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Typescript” are actually fragments making up most of this 1910 version by Carr; for a discussion see D&C; see also M 30. Contains the usual drawing-room scenes. Photo in V&H, two promotional photographs at http://collectorspost.com/Baird.htm; G20]
1910 Comptson, Nelson. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A Drama in Four Acts. [Ms in New York Public Library; G H.1 p. 217]
1910 London stage adaptation by A. Law [M 47, referring to ‘Lord Chamberlain’s Playscripts’ in British Library]
1915? Stuart, Anna Bird (c. 1915?). The Jeckyll and Hyde Woman. A play in one act, written for Mrs. Mansfield from the original play by T.R. Sullivan and the story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Typescript in New York Public Library.
[This would seem to be the first example of the variant of the JH story that makes both protagonists female (later used in Emma Tennant’s Two Women of London, 1989). Listed in Harry M. Geduld, (1983), The Definitive “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Companion, p. 193. Google search produces a reference to another play for high-school girls by Anna Bird Stuart in The Daily Review [Decatur, Ill., USA] April 4, 1916.]
1923 Kellerd, John E. with Kellerd [Belmont Theatre, New York; Feb. 26 1923; G21. ‘Emphasis is placed less on the romantic phase of the situation and more on the mental struggle of Dr. Jekyll than in the former dramatization. It is maintained that Stevenson's chief object was to emphasize the moral effect of the habit of evil on a character normally good’, Time archive Mar. 3 1923, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,881370,00.html.]
1927 Ashwell, Lena & Roger Pocock. [Century Theatre, London (April); 'Q Theatre' (according to G - perhaps Queen's Theatre?; M&F have “Century Theater (London, England)”, March 28 1927), London & Eastbourne (May); G lists these as two versions, though main actor (Wilfred Fletcher) and adaptors are the same; G 22 & 23; M cites Lord Chamberlain’s Playscripts in British Museum 1927/2. Set in 1927; criticizes Victorian patriarchal society through J’s wife, Bessie (an independent woman).]
1931 Senior, William (1931). London dramatization of JH [Savoy Theatre, July 14 1931, revived Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 1935 (M 50); Arthur Phillips as Hyde; 2 photos in V&H; G24; Geduld identifies the 1931 and 1935 plays as the same, while M lists them as separate, identifying author and actor only for the 1935 version, but does notcomment or explain the separation]
1933 Akrill, A.W. London stage adaptation [M 50, citing Lord Chamberlain’s Playscripts 1933/34 in the British Library]
1941 Abbot, Richard. (1941). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A play in 3 acts. L/NY: French [M&F and R have ‘Richard Abbot’; another source had ‘Leonrad H.’]
1946 Lawrence, Jerome & Robert E. Lee (1946). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. ‘Favorite Story’ series (Script X, broadcast 20 Aug. 1946) [Orig. typescript in the Library of the Lawrence & Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State Univ., Columbus; see R]
1946 Richmond, Susan (1946). Treasure Island. A play in six scenes. London: H. F. W. Deane & Sons.
1947 London stage adaptation by E. Percy [M 50, citing Lord Chamberlain’s Playscripts in British Library]
1948 anon. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1946). ‘Short Story’ series, NBS [see R, p. 158]
1950 anon. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [in the ‘Theatre Guild on the Air’ series of radio plays (Nov. 19th 1950), with Fredric March, Barbara Bel Geddes, Hugh Williams]
1954 Dard, Frédéric. Dr Jekyll et Mr Hyde. Theatre du Grand Guignol (Paris), directed by Robert Hossein.
1956 Sieveking, Lance De Giberne. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. [Repertory Theatre , Birmingham, 8 Nov. 1956 (M p. 52); publ. In Plays of the Year Vol 15. London: ***, pp. 245-346, G H.2 p. 217]
1957 Maxwell, J. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. [M p. 52]
1961 Bene, Carmelo. Lo strano caso del dottor Jekyll e del signor Hyde. 2 Acts. [Genova, Teatro la Borsa d’Arlecchino. Carmelo Bene ((1937-2002), provocative avant-garde Italian actor, wrote the script, was director and principal actor; sets by G. Bignardi;. The production is described in a lightly fictionalised account by Tonino Conte (2002) in L’amato Bene. Torino: Einaudi (pp. 43-49). For him Bene is ‘not a director but a fanatic shaman’;lines that were given great emphasis in the production (and remain in Conte’s memory) included ‘till the banks open’ (‘finchè la banca non aprirà’, a line repeated thousands of times in rehearsals according to Conte) and ‘Utterson, for God’s sake, have mercy!’ (‘Utterson, per l’amor di Dio, abbia pieta!’), ‘I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end’ (‘pongo fine alla vita dell’infelice Henry Jekyll’), and ‘Did you ever remark that door? It is connected in my mind with a very odd story’ (‘Avete mai notato quella porta? nella mia mente è connessa ad una storia molto strana’). Carmelo Bene had half his face made up as Jekyll, half as Hyde.]
1968 Thuna, Leonora (book), Norman Sachs (music) (1968). After You, Mr Hyde. [musical; Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, Conn.; apparently the basis for the 1973 TV musical with Kirk Douglas; see also under 1990; M&F]
1973 Thompson, Ed (1973). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Stage adaptation. [Performed by at the Derby Playhouse [?] by the Belgrade Theatre Company of Coventry, April 1973 (M p. 54 has ‘Stage adaptation by Ed Thomoson [sic]; Derby Playhouse; the Belgrade Theatre Company, Coventry, April 1973’ – an entry which clearly contains errors); M also adds that this version was performed at the Nottingham Playhouse and at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield ‘in the late 1970s and early 1980s’.]
1974 De Pue, Wallace Earl (1974). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Opera in 13 scenes. [Opera, first performed April 25 1974, Bowling Green State University, Ohio; ms score and tape in archival storage at The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough ( New Hampshire; USA); pc of ms in New York Public Library; the story-line seems to follow Stevenson’s text quite closely (no fiancées), however: “Because Dr. Jekyll is a man of compassion and honor, the final experiment can only be tried on himself.” and Hyde murders a prostitute); Jekyll and Hyde are two different performers,one a bass-baritone (Hyde) and tenor (Jekyll); more information and a newspaper review at http://mustec.bgsu.edu/~wallace/jekyll.html; according to De Pue, at the first performance in 1974, Hugh Ross, then director of the New York City Opera, said that it was “probably the finest contemporary opera I have yet heard.”]
1975 Lee, Paul (1975). [Drury Theater, Cleveland, Ohio; dir. Paul Lee, Jonathan Farwell (Jekyll), Robert Snook (Lanyon); M&F, 172-3]
1979 Morrison, Bill (1979). Dr Jekyll Of Rodney Street, at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, 11 April (M p. 55).; revived by the same company 15 June 2005, with Jack Klaff in the title roles.
1979 Smith, Andy (1979). The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the True Story. Performed at University of Bradford Theatre in the Mill, October 1979 (M p. 55).
1980 Marvin, Jim (1980). [Down Center Stage, Dallas; Wayne Lambert (Jekyll), Jeffrey Kinhorn (Hyde) [M&F]
1980 O’Neal, Barry (1980) (music) & Robin Jones (libretto) (1980). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a romantic opera in one act. [pc of ms in New York Public Library]
1981 Caddy, Leonard H. (1981). Jekyll and Hyde. London: Samuel French (0573111863). [Performed Feb. 1997 at Hendry Hall, North Vancouver, Oct-.Nov. 1990 in Stickney, Illinois; 27-30 October 2004 by Theatre64, Yately, UK; 26-30 October 2004 by the Marlowe Players at the Derby Playhouse Studio Theatre; 7-11 February 2006 by the Boundary Players at Newbury Theatre, UK; March 2006 by Millenium Stage in North Kirklees, near Huddersfield; March 2007 by the Taunton Thespians at The Brewhouse, Taunton, dir. Stuart Lyddon; Nov-Dec 2007 by the Hebden Bridge Little Theatre (W. Yorkshire) dir. Vaughan Leslie with Mike Bellenie in the title roles. [Publisher’s presentation: ‘In this retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story, Dr. Jekyll is introduced just as he is on the brink of discovering the key to man's inner reality. One evening he experiments on himself and finds that his formula works. Unfortunately, his "real" self turns out to be the monster Edward Hyde. Jekyll continues his researches, spending more and more time as Hyde until this horrifying character takes over. Jekyll's fiancée [Clementine] and friends slowly become aware of the changes in him but are powerless to help. Jekyll himself finds it more and more difficult to keep Hyde at bay, and his initial delight soon turns to despair. When Hyde brutally murders one of the young maids, he realizes his experiment has gone too far, and he takes the only possible course of action left to him.’ Suggests that evil is the true character of everyone and shows Jekyll’s friends as complicit with him (M: 37-8; C: 140).]
1981 Vonnegut, Kurt (1981). The Chemistry Professor. [musical play based on Jekyll and Hyde]. In Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage. 1981. New York: Dell. [MS in Indiana University Library, Vonnegut MSS, box 4, folder 17, where it is dated 1978; the same collection has: Vonnegut, Kurt. n.d. Shilling Shocker [story line for a musical play based on Jekyll and Hyde]. Indiana University Library, Vonnegut MSS, Box 10, folder 8; the University of Delaware Library also has a photocopy of “Shilling Shocker” and photocopy of a letter from Vonnegut describing the material; ‘Seymour Lawrence Publishing Files related to Kurt Vonnegut’, Box 4, Folder 206.]
1983 Corris, Colston (1983). Problem Potion: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Apple Corps Theater, New York, directed by Christopher Catt, with Orson Bean (Jekyll), Eric Booth (Hyde). [Other roles: Lanyon, Canon Danvers Carew, Utterson, Enfield, Margaret Jekyll Drew (probably this should be ‘Carew’), Mrs. Poole. Melodramatic version with romance interest (as in the Hollywood tradition) and churchman patriarch Carew (as in the early stage versions by Bandmann and by Forepaugh and Fish) but, unusually, two actors for the title roles. M pp. 38, 56;
1983 Lewton, Randall & Peter Miller (music) (1983). I Was a Teenage Jekyll and Hyde. London: Samuel French (0573180091) [musical play for schools; “Eustace Crucible, crazed chemistry teacher, has found a formula to enhance his appearance and intelligence. But courage fails him and he persuades downtrodden Sylvester Jekyll to drink the potion transforming him into Hyde, a super-cool, handsome, laid-back youth. Between momentary flashbacks to his real self, Hyde learns of people's true feelings for Sylvester and, in the end, decides to be himself”. 16 musical numbers. Revived at the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth in 2002, and the Carlton Theatre, Teignmouth in 2003, and in an abridged form at the Athénée de Luxembourg in 2003.]
1984 Martin, Christopher (1984). Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde. [Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, June 1984; New Vic Theatre, London, 13 June 1984; two actors for the lead roles (M p. 56)]
1984 Sharkey, Jack & Dave Reiser (book, music and lyrics) (1984). Jekyll Hydes Again! a screwball musical. [M&F, p. 174]
1985 Campbell, Donald. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [Dundee Repertory Theatre, directed by Robert Robertson, Kenneth Gilbert as Jekyll and another actor as Hyde (M p. 38); script in National Library of Scotland and University of Glasgow Library, Special Collections]
1988 Cohen, Philippe (1988). Dr Jekyll and Lady Hyde. Lausanne: Favre (Collection Théâtre Suisse)
1989 Macklin, Robert (1989). Jekyll and Hyde. Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”. Louisville: Aran Press. [Listed by M p. 58 – but not traceable on Internet, on Library of Congress Catalog etc.. Aran Press specialize in plays, so it has been listed on this page—but it could be a retelling]
1989 Osterman, Georg (1989). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The Ridiculous Theater Company, directed by Kate Stafford with Everett Quinton (J/H); Charles Ludlham Theater, New York. [Dr Jekyll is convinced that a mild librarian turned serial killer is suffering from a mental disease; this idea is derided by Dr Braintwain (= Lanyon) and Jekyll decides to prove it by drinking the potion and turning into Eddie Hyde. Hyde goes to a ‘joint’, the fruit Bowl, where he befriends singer Lily Gay (Osterman); ‘iconoclastic’ production, M&F; ‘slap-happy and very liberal adaptation.. Mr. Quinton, the company's artistic director, plays both the high verbal and low physical comedy with absolute conviction. He wrings his hands, coaxing melodrama from his most florid lines, some of them lifted right from Stevenson. ''There's something strange in my sensations,'' he confides to the audience in one of his bouts of overheated philosophizing. ''Something indescribably new, and from its very novelty, incredibly sweet,'' he says, snapping each hard consonant against his tongue with relish.’ Script published New York: French, 1990]
1989 Poskitt, Kjartan (1989). The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Bumble: or, Who Framed Dorian Gray?Performed by the London Actors Theatre Company at the Latchmere Theatre, London, November 1990-January 1991 (but listed by The Theatre Record 1989, p. 1731, http://www.theatrerecord.org/productionindex/LondonTitleIndex1981-2005.pdf). [Children’s version with rock-sounding songs.]
1989? Natural Theatre Company (?1989). Jekyll and Hyde Follies. Performed in London by the Natural Theatre Company in 1989. [The Bath-based Natural Theatre Company, founded in 1970, specializes in comic-visual theatre. See The Theatre Record 1989, pp. 85, 314 http://www.theatrerecord.org/productionindex/LondonTitleIndex1981-2005.pdf]
1990 Thuna, Leonora (book), Norman Sachs
(music), Mel Mandel (lyrics) (1989). Jekyll and Hyde.
[Musical version. Dir. Gregory S. Hurst; George Street
Playhouse, New Bruswick, New Jersey; John Cullum (Jekyll), Ann Kerry Ford (Margaret); see also under
1968; M&F]
1990 Crane, David & Marta Kauffman
(book and lyrics), Michael Skoff (music) (1990). Jekyll
and Hyde.
[dir. Jay Harnick, Promenade
Theater, off Broadway; loosely based on JH—names
changed; M&F. “Contemporary musical about a teenage
chemistry wiz who creates a substance which changes him from a nerd into the
coolest kid in school. When craving for the substance takes over his life, he
decides to stop using it, cannot, and realizes that he needs help.” Performed
by Theatreworks/USA dir. Jay Harnick at the Promenade Theater, New York, June-July 2006]
1990 Brace, Adam (1990). The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde. For 2 actors. Battersea Arts Centre, 1990; Edinburgh Fringe by the Velocet company with Thom Disney (Jekyll) and Tom Stuart (Utterson), 2004. [praised production; no sets, and costumes that remain the same throughout the performance, but music and lighting.]
1990 Brooks, Robin (1990). The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Performed by the Empty Space Repertory Company, 1990; Citizens’ Theatre Circle Studio, Glasgow, 1993. Prompt Script in Glasgow University Library Special Collections.
1990 Bricusse, Leslie (book, lyrics) & Frank Wildhorn (music) Jekyll & Hyde. Pop opera/musical spectacle originally conceived for the stage by Steve Cuden
and Frank Wildhorn.
Book of the musical: Cherry Lane Music, Leslie Bricusse,
Frank Wildhorn (1997). Jekyll & Hyde : the
Musical. Cherry Lane Music Company. Video by Broadway Television Network
(aired on HBO network in 2002 and 2003).
[A Broadway production had been prepared by Wildhorn
in 1987 but was not staged because for lack of investment after the Stock
Market crash; after this Bricusse joined Wildhorn and rewrote the script; the first public stage
performance was at the Alley Theatre, Houston, in 1990; later also at Houston’s
Theatre Under the Stars; Plymouth Theater, New York
Broadway production (director Robin Pillips), from
April 1997 to January 2001 with Robert Cuccioli in
the lead roles; music on concept CDs 1990, 1994. Adds love interest familiar
from film versions; shows corruption spread thtough
society (M p. 41); ends with wedding of Jekyll and Emma Carew and a final
transformation to Hyde; a virtuoso piece is “Confrontation” the lead actor’s
Jekyll/Hyde duet].
1990 Osterman, Georg (1990). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. New York: S. French.
1991,
1996 Edgar, David. The
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The Royal Shakespeare Company at the
Barbican Theatre, London, 21 November 1991, dir. Peter Wood, with Roger Allam (Jekyll) and Simon Russell Beale (Hyde). Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde: Play. London: Hern Books, 1992 (86
pp.). Revised edition 1996 (96 pp.).
[In the 1991 version, J and H were played by two
actors who dialogue together (Jekyll with a light Edinburgh accent, Hyde with a
strong Glasgow accent). Also performed 1993 at Cornell University’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, dir. Bruce Levitt. The
revised version was first performed in 1996 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre
with David Schofield in both title roles. Also performed October 29 – November
15 2003, dir. Geoffrey Sherman with Kurt Rhoads as J/H and the Pioneer Theatre
Company, Salt lake City. Also July 26 - October 28 2006 at the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival (Angus Bowmer Theater, Ashland, Oregon), dir. Penny Metropulos
with James Newcomb taking both title roles. Also 9-25 November 2006 at Perth
Theatre, Scotland, dir. Graham McLaren with Kevin McMonagle
in both title roles.
1991 Metcalfe, Stephen (1991). The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde. Theatro Technis , London, 1991.
c. 1991 Sperinck, Jim. Jekyll in Hiding: a
one-act comedy. Hemel Hempsted: Jasper.
[The bewildered Bennington-Smythes
escape from the horror of 221b Baker Street (see Sperinck’s
play 'Holmes Sweet Holmes'). The couple answer an ad for a flat in a quieter
part of London. But will they find the tranquillity they are seeking in the
house of the infamous Dr. Jekyll? Or will chaos and confusion reign? Performed
by the Fatfield Junior Operatic Society, Washington,
NE England, in 1997]
1993 Slout, William L. The Trial of Dr. Jekyll: An Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' : A Play in Two Acts. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo Press. (ISBN: 0809562529), $25.00.
1994 Jekyll! the musical. Alex Went and John Moore and directed by Peter Fanning. [Written for the pupils of Shrewsbury School by two drama teachers, the show toured to the 1995 Edinburgh Fringe, where it won a major award - a Fringe First - for outstanding new drama ; it returned to the Edinburgh Festival in 1998]
1995 DeBoy, David (1995). Dr. Jekyll and
Miss Hyde. Performed at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, dir. Richard Rose with James Horan (Jekyll), June 23
1995
[‘gender-bender comedy’ ]
1995 Alighieri, R. & M. Martelli, I figli del Dr Jekyll, dir. Massimo Martelli, with Stefano Nosei and ‘i Gemelli Ruggeri’ (Eraldo Turra e Luciano Manzalini ) [Italian comedy sequel staged 1995/6: the three sons of J/H and Elvira hear a recorded testament of their father in the office of Sandy Utterson (Utterson’s daughter), asking them to complete his experiments; a mad series of transformations follows (using potion and/or hair lotion): heavy metal rock musicians, Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Barry White, Yogi Bear]
1995 Burns, Brendon (1995). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
1995 Regional Tour with the Indefinite Article company.
[A two handed adaptation interwoven with events from
Stevenson life.]
1995? Davis, Russell (?1995). The
Travelling Jekyll and Hyde Show, written for the Repertory Theater of St. Louis; also performed in 1999 by the
Honolulu Theater for Youth, directed by Mark Lutwak; directed by M. Saville at
the Providence Theater, October 2003; at the Puffin
Cultural Forum in Teanec, NJ, November 2003.
[A Book of Traveling
Shows : Two short plays for a general audience (Baker’s Plays, 1995)
includes the ‘Travelling Jekyll’: ‘An overworked and underpaid touring troupe
tries to bring the “magic of theatre” into the lives of children. On the venue
tonight: wildly irreverent, abridged version of Jekyll and Hyde and Cinderella.
[…] In The Travelling Jekyll and Hyde show, the women must wear mustaches and oversized costumes to play men’s roles.’]
1995 Levy, David & Leslie Eberhard (Book and Lyrics), Phil Hall (Music) (1995), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [Philip Mckinley (Director); Miami Valley Dinner Theatre, Springboro, Ohio, August 12 - November 5,1995; North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly, Massachusetts, August 5 - 24, 1996; Starlight Theatre, Kansas City, Missouri, July 21 - 27, 1997; Paper Mill Playhouse, NJ, November 4 - December 13, 1998; J and H are played by different actors; youthful Hyde; female characters, J's fiancée Amanda Lanyon and the music-hall dancer Lily Cummins; http://www.drjekyllandmrhyde.com/index.html]
1996 Amodio (choreography) Lo strano caso del dottor Jekyll e del signor Hyde. ATER Balletto(or: Aterballetto), Teatro Municipale Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy. [9-11 Feb. ; ballet version; the idea of JH as a story for a ballet seems to have appealed to choreographers as there are 5 separate ballet versions 2001-2; C: 140]
1996 Devlin, Graham (book) & Felix Cross (music and lyrics) (1996). The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, performed by the Major Road Theatre Company, dir. Graham Devlin & Felix Cross with Nicola Burnett Smith (Sarah Carew). Performed by Music Theatre Group Amsterdam, April 2004, dir. Philip Curtis with Paul Donkers (Jekyll/ Hyde) and Marleen van der Loo (Dr. Sarah Carew).
[‘Chamber musical’ with Sarah Carew, an American doctor and scientist visiting Victorian London. Sarah becomes alternately beguiled by both Jekyll and Hyde and ends by solving the mystery of their dual identity. ]
1996 Kelly, Tim (1996). Doctor Jekyll - Please Don't Hyde. ***: Hanbury Plays (1852052023).
1996 Nichol, James W (1996). Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde—A Love Story. [Canadian Stage Company, Toronto February 12- March 16, 1996, then in other Canadian theatres; reinterpretation in terms of incest and sexuality; not well received.]
1996 Rees, Tony and Gary Young (1996). Jekyll. Musical thriller, performed by the Apollo Leisure Company at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, director Stephen Rayne with Dave (J/H). 21 March-13 April 1996, then toured to Oxford, Hull, Manchester and Edinburgh.
1996 Van Fleteren, Roger (choreography), Thomas Helms (music) (1999). Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde. The Ballet. Alabama Ballet with Roger Van Fleteren and Wes Chapman (Jekyll, Hyde but it might have been the other way around); Birmingham, Albama, Oct 22 1999. Revived Oct. 30-Nov. 2 2008 with Matthew Prescott (Jekyll) and Benjamin Linn (Hyde).
1997 Barber, Stan & Joe Edkin
(1997). The Strange
Case of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde. [Produced by Pax Amicus Castle Theatre, Budd Lake, NJ 1997; Stan Barber,
producer/director.
[Joe Edkin took Stan Barber's character concepts and basic
outline and developed them into a linear play. Advancing the story fifteen
years to 1899, this version (note spelling 'Jeckyl'
apparently for copyright reasons) is a rumination on personal responsibility,
cognitive disassociative disorder, and substance
addiction; female characters include Jeckyl's fiancée
Sarah Lanyon. More information and three script extracts at http://www.williamsullivanadvertising.com/joeedkin/jeckylsc.html. Also performed in
Oregon and Louisville, Ky,
and May 2007 in Elmira, NY]
[Fully dramatised radio recording, set in Scotland with Scots-speaking characters, including Hyde, and more genteel Edinburgh accents and Standard Scottish English for the professional men. Robert Forrest’s interesting free adaptation weaves in phrases from other Stevenson works, such as ‘Pulvis et Umbra’, ‘A Chapter on Dreams’ and Edinburgh Picturesque Notes, and there are passages on the divisions of Scotland and of Edinburgh. The ‘inner voice’ (excellently acted by Tom Fleming) is a useful device for including parts of Jekyll’s ‘statement’ and also parts of the narrator’s comments in ch. 1-8. The focus on hands in the original is elaborated in Hyde’s placing of interlacing his hands with the contrasting hands of his victims (a policeman, Lanyon, Enfield) before killing them. Jekyll is pronounced ‘jee-kill’ throughout.]
1997 Fort, Fréderic. L’étrange cas du Dr Jekyll et de Mr Hyde. Director Mario Gonzalez; perfomed by the Compagnie Annibale et ses éléphants. 1999 Avignon Festival; Malmö, Sweden, September 2001 (dir. by Gonzalez with Swedish actors; Comédie de Picardie, April 2005, etc.; Chicago, December 2008 (by the Bricklayers Theater Company in collaboration with Collectif Masque; Theatre Wit, W. Belmont, Chicago). [A farce, playing on the lunacies of a repressed society, and centred on the investigation by Mr Utterson. The five actors wear masks and the production is influenced by the Commedia dell’arte tradition.]
1998 Chadwick, Neil & Neil Sissons 81998). Jekyll and Hyde. Compass Theatre Company, South Hill Park Arts centre, Bracknell, 16-19 September; Crucible Theatre, Sheffield 13-17 October (Miller p. 61).
1998 Fisher, Bob (1998). Clay Continent. [(i) September 20, 1998; Charas/El Bohio Cultural & Community Center, New York;dir. Bon Fisher; David Gilsheridan (Utterson), Brian Reilly (Jekyll), Michael Martin (Hyde); (ii) workshop performance on August 3, 2000 at the Space, Chicago; dir. Bon Fisher; Derek Smart (Utterson), Ron Kroll (Jekyll), Frank Platis (Hyde); (iii) Jan-March 2001 The Mammals Theatre Company, at The Space, Chicago; dir. Bob Fisher; Alex Honzen (Utterson), Derek Smart (Jekyll), Ron Kroll (Hyde); (iv) 2002 at the Space, Chicago with Honzen, Kroll & Smart] [Just three characters played by three actors: Utterson, Jekyll and Hyde; builds up to excess in the tradition of the Grand Guignol. ‘Inspired by the grotesque portraiture of Francis Bacon and the novel ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’, CLAY CONTINENT is an aural pageant of diabolical villainy constructed with various excerpts from the stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, Dostoyevsky, and Edgar Allen Poe. Recounting the story of one doctor’s desperate attempt to overcome his own evil through the use of science as he conceals the tragic results of his continual failure, CLAY CONTINENT creates a compelling soundscape in which the multiple personalities inhabiting the doctor’s body vie for dominance over their collective flesh. Throughout the performance, the actors representing Jekyll and Hyde often speak their lines simultaneously. In performance, simultaneity can capture the essence of chaos and, when employed artfully, embody the tension of sensory overload/schizophrenia.’]
1999 Adorian, Simon (1999). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Collins Educational (ISBN: 0003230783). ["school dramatization in the form of a TV documentary involving key witnesses trying to get to the bottom of a strange case. The story is reconstructed and the audience is taken back to Victorian London. Resources following the playscript contain activities for drama including role-play, reading, writing, and speaking and listening. These are accompanied by extension material, including extracts from modern and contemporary works for comparison, and documentary material." The script follows Stevenson’s story-line quite closely and uses many of the same words; there is no fiancée and the only extra characters (outside the framing TV documentary) are a chorus; Jekyll and Hyde are taken by different actors; first performed at St. Osmond’s Middle School, Dorchester, July 1998]
1999 Calcutt, Thomas (1999). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Nelson (Dramascripts). [dramatization for secondary schools. Extra characters include Kinch, a private detective, Young Jekyll and his Nurse (who tells him stories of damnation and the devil like Cummie), Mary, a prostitute, and a chorus of the damned of the city. The trampling is of an importunate link-boy, knocked down and hit with a stick; Enfield and Carew meet with Mary for suggested excesses, Hyde is another client who then blackmails Carew (like Lemsome in the early draft).]
1999 Smith, Noah (1999). The Strange
Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Performed at the Mt. Holyoke College summer
theatre (South Hadley, MA, United States). Published by Playscripts
Inc., 2003.
[‘Dr. Henry Jekyll is a brilliant scientist frustrated
by dull “respectable” life in 1888 Victorian London. He creates a formula to
unleash his inner bestial nature, transforming him into the brutish but oddly
compassionate Edward Hyde. Hyde lives the high life while Jekyll’s
middle-aged normalcy continues -- until Hyde’s passions begin to turn up a body
count. This intimate, easy-to-stage version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s science
fiction classic features two haunting chorus characters, who speed along the
action, play many supporting roles, and speak to Jekyll as the voices in his
head, spurring him toward triumph and tragedy.’ (http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=183) ]
1999 Van Fleteren, Roger (choreography), Thomas Helms (music) (1999). Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde. The Ballet. Alabama Ballet with Roger Van Fleteren and Wes Chapman
(Jekyll, Hyde - but it might have been the other way around); Birmingham, Albama, Oct 22 1999. Revived Oct. 30-Nov. 2 2008 with Matthew Prescott (Jekyll) and Benjamin Linn (Hyde).
[Jekyll and Hyde are interpreted by separate dancers. ‘Helms borrowed successfully from several sources, which include popular Latin American idioms like the beguine and the tango,
elegant Strauss waltzes and, in the introduction, Gustav Mahler.’ (http://blog.al.com/mhuebner/2008/10/).]
2001 Eberle, Thomas & Barbara Redmond
(?2001). The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Performed at the St.
Louis Community College., 2001.
[Also performed February 8 2004 as a one-hour piece
for Texas Nonprofit Theatres’ bi-annual competition
by Upstage Theatre (of Houston, Texas) with Sam M. Smith (J/H) at Creek Country
Theatre, Nassau Bay (TX). To be performed by Upstage Theatre in Houston in June
2007. Originally Commissioned by the Asolo Touring
Company (Sarasota, FL). The story (in flashbacks from the coroner’s inquest)
‘is ingeniously told from the perspective of Newcomen,
the inspector from Scotland Yard who is assigned to this case’ (WillyFogg.com).
Includes a rape scene (communitytheater.org). ]
2001 Logunov, Vladimir (choreography) (2001). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. 12 scenes, with music by Elgar and drumming by percussionist Dragoljub Đuričić. 27 December 2001, National Theatre, Belgrade
2001 Moricone, Massimo (director & choreographer) & Philip Wilby (music) (2001). Jekyll and Hyde. Northern Ballet Theatre (NBT) (designs by Alessandro Ciammarughi; 19-24 Feb 2001, West Park Centre, Leeds; later at Sadler's Wells, London in March 2001) [ballet version; "set in a glamorous 1930's Metropolis-inspired world…in stark contrast to the strangeness of the scenes with Mr. Hyde"; the 1930’s design was chosen because of the associations of the story with the 1931and 1941 films; begins with a prologue about Stevenson’s nightmare and the writing of the text; does not show the transformation (M p. 42).]
2001 Kenny, Mike (2001). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (dir. Tim Wheeler, film Jonathan Bentley, Mind the Gap company with Jonathan Oliver (Jekyll), Daniel de Andrade (Hyde), Charlotte Talbot (Lucille); Grand Theatre, Leeds, 19-24 February 2001, then touring England Feb-April 2001). ["Combines original video footage with live performance. The MtG company uses trained, professional actors who have learning disabilities who throughout history have been portrayed as either angels or devils - admired as loveable innocents or feared as dangerous and sub-human…. "Looks at the story from fresh angles… The distinction between Jekyll and Hyde is not so clear cut. The last hours of Dr Jekyll form the structure of the play with moments of recollection coming from each of three main characters. Wicked irony and mischievous humour provide balance for what is and remains a terrifying story. Mike Kenny’s new ending will surprise…this should not be missed." (Kevin Berry Times Educational Supplement 13/02/2001). www.mind-the-gap.org.uk (wasn't updated with the JH production when I visited)]
2001 Redfield, Mark & Stuart Voytilla (2001). The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. New Century Theater, Baltimore.
2002 Guerin, Catherine & Liz King (choreography)
(2002). Hyde and Jekyll. 8 June
2002, Volksoper,
Vienna. Music by Chopin
and other classical composers remixed by DJ Stefan Strobl.
[This ballet is divided into two parts: the first (by
Liz King) concerns Hyde, the second (by Catherine Guerin) Jekyll with a common
epilogue. The two parts were choreographed separately, one choreographer not
knowing what the other was doing.]
[Probably created by the Artistic Director and founder of CCB, Radenko Pavlovich. Judged an ‘explosive ballet… without a doubt the best show of the season’ by Edward Smith (who mistakenly ascribes it to George Balanchine) in The State (South Carolina), and a show that ‘enraptured the crowd with lyrical movement and wonderful dramatic performances’ http://www.ballet-dance.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2795&view=next&sid=a270521fbb81dba3aad7293d53d26ca6]
2002 Rossa, Ralf (choreography) (2002). Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde. Ballet, Opernhaus, Halle, Germany, July
2002.
[The first half is set in the nineteenth century
accompanied by film music; the second half is set in the present day with rock
music by‘Pixelpack
von Trotha’]
2003 Flannery, Pauline (2003). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. (written and directed by Pauline Flannery; performed by the Ironduke Company at Greyfriars Kirk House during the Edinburgh Festival 2003. Nazim Osmanoglu (Hyde)(Hyde), Conal McLean (Jekyll), Charlotte Cheetham (Lanyon), Mark Cooper-Jones (Utterson))
[Apiece for four actors (who pronounce ‘Jekyll’ as ‘Jeek-ill’, as RLS did), the two title roles given to two actors, with a bare stage and a cage-like frame on wheels used (with sound and lighting) to signify changes of location and scene and also as a device to help visualise the mindset that Jekyll/Hyde finds himself in at that moment. Company presentation: ‘Ironduke brings to life a sinister, classic tale: of nocturnal streets, secrets, dark revelations, enveloped in a fog-bound nineteenth century London. It begins with the story of the door; the gruesome murder of Sir Danvers Carew; and ends in the creation of the diabolical alter-ego that is The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.’ Performed in Kansas City (The Coterie Theatre, Crown Center) Theatre) Oct. 2004, by Talent Co. at the Gifford family Theatre, Syracuse, NY, 13-28 Jan 2006]
2004 McCrone, Alasdair & Robert Paterson (2004). Jekyll
and Hyde. (Dir. Alasdair McCrone). Opening at Cumbernauld Theatre on September 16, with dates all over
Scotland until November 27. (A Scottish Touring Theatres Consortium and Mull
Theatre Co-Production; designed by Alicia Hendrick;
original music by Martin Low.
[The setting is not specific but suggests Edinburgh Old
and New Towns; the parts of Jekyll and Hyde are taken by two actors, but two
female roels (Jekyll’s maid
and a music-hall singer) are taken by the same acrress.
McCrone and Paterson are the co-authors of the
successful 2003-4 adapatation of Kidnapped.]
2004“Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” performed by the ‘Les Feux de l’Harmattan’ company, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Salle Claude Debussy, Dinard (France) on July 23 and 24 and August 7, 12, 14, 19, 20 and 21 2004. [Not clear if this is a new production or not]
2004 Eberle Thomas and Barbara Redmond (2004, 2007). The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. UpStage Theatre at Lambert Hall, Houston, directed by Arnold Richie with Randy Wayne Creager (Jekyll), June 15-30 2007.
[Performed as a one hour piece by UpStage Theatre for Texas Nonprofit Theatres’ bi-annual competition in 2004, now in a full-length version ‘Wayne Creager plays Dr. Jekyll as a sort of bumbling idiot savant. He loves the lab but can barely speak when sitting in the room with Rachel Lanyon (Melissa Mumper), the sweet-faced woman who adores him.’ http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-06-21/culture/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde]
2005 Butelli, Louis
& Peter Meineck [elsewhere presented as by Butelli, with Meineck as
director] (2005). The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr
Hyde. For Aquila Theatre Company, dir. Robert Richmond. Touring US
Fall 2005 through Spring 2006.
[‘Stevenson's story offers compelling views of the nature
of human emotion and the bounds of scientific research, a fascinating detective
story and a fictional parallel for the unsolved murders of Jack the Ripper.’
(Aquila theatre company presentation). This version starts with the trampling
scene and includes original music and dance. We see Richard Mansfield producing
JH in London as the Jack-the-Ripper scare starts so that JH becomes a
‘play-within-a-play’. ‘Given
the richness of the source material, we decided to attempt to merge the Jekyll
and Hyde story with “TheTheatre”
by creating a play-within-a-play. In this way, we could explore the idea of
addiction and transformation, andwe could watch Mansfield at work, both off-stage and on. We could see
him struggle with the life of his production ofJekyll and Hyde, we could relish in
his frustration when Jack the Ripper starts scaring off his audience and the
intrigue when he becomes a suspect in the case. Moreover, we might enjoy
the complications that ensue as the off-stage and on-stage worlds start
to collide – and ultimately merge.’
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:kqUYOVnRaZ4J:aquilatheatre.com/Aquila_Spring_2006_Jekyll_and_Hyde_Program.pdf+Arizona+Theatre+Company+jekyll&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1]
2005 Lewis, Amy & Lauren Wilson (2005). Sawbones – The Cabinet of Dr. Jekyll. Workhorse Theatre Company (dir. Stephen Buescher), The Carriage House Stage, Providence, RI, USA. 10-13 November 2005.
[A ‘physical theatre’ piece focusing on the actor’s body, mixing text, movement and soundscapes. ‘So often the point of view of this story is simply that of good vs. evil,’ Buescher says. ‘Jekyll’s story is more compelling as the tale of an internal battle– a struggle between living impulsively and censoring and repressing oneself beyond true emotion. Eventually, the floodgates give way.’ Wilson wrote other versions of JH in 2006 and 2007.]
2005 Mark Ryan (2005). The Strange
Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as told to Carl Jung by an Inmate of Broadmoor Asylum. White Bear Theatre, Kennington,
London, November 12-December 4 2005, dir. Blanche McIntyre with Ali Amadi (Hyde) and Ashley Gunstock (Jung).
[‘Mr Hyde has been committed to Broadmoor
[institute for the criminally insane] and Dr Jung is on hand for a little pychoanalytic probing […] The good doktor
proceeds to perform hypnosis and word association games on his patient but
gradually the tables are turned and doctor becomes patient as Mr Hyde sets
about questioning his keeper’s authority. Mark Ryan’s play concerns itself with
what Carl Jung called ‘the shadow’, the unacceptable and denied part of
ourselves that remains clouded from our conscious awareness. […] The two
players ably capture the power-shifts in a very physical piece of theatre.’
(Paul Fitzpatrick, UK Theatre Network). http://www.theatre-wales.co.uk/reviews/reviews_details.asp?offset=25&reviewID=1186]
2006 Patrick Prior (2006). Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
29 September 2006 at the Yvonne Arnaud Mill Studio, Guildford, dir. Jim Dunk
with the Isosceles theatre company in association with Useful Idiots, the
actors are Pat Abernethy (Jekyll and Hyde) and Dave Marsden (everyone else).
Then Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, 19-21 March 2007; Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, 15-19 May 2007.
[For two actors; ‘a good, vivid, popular version of a
great story, told with notable passion’.]
[A
new adaptation ‘faithfully
based on the novel’ (see also Wiggs below). “We can’t build up suspense in the same way Stevenson did,” Tatham says. “What [McDonald] did in adapting it to the
stage is take the revelation Dr. Jekyll leaves in the letter after his death
and introduce it into the story. We lead the audience on by gradually revealing
to them what exactly it was that made Dr. Jekyll into this evil person he
became.”]
2006 Wilson, Lauren (2006). Chemical
Imbalance. (1) Jon Sims Center
for the Arts, San Francisco (a gay arts centre) March 26-27 May 2006. (2) Exit
Theatre, San Francisco, directed by Graham Smith with Elizabeth Bullard, Andrew
Calabrese, Erin Carter, Gabriel Diamond, Ben Dziuba,
Javier Galito-Cava, Nicole Lungerhausen,
Maria McKee and Kendra Lee Oberhauser June 2-10 2006.
Same production and theatre in 8 March-7 April 2007. [‘Laughter and blood erupt in this darkly comic
adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyl [sic]
and Mr Hyde. During a particularly charming Christmas holiday, Dr. Jekyl’s macabre experiments go badly awry and twist his
refined, Victorian upbringing into unthinking evil. Repressed impulses burst
their corsets as Jekyll embarks on his schizophrenic journey which threatens to
reveal the bloody hands beneath the gloves of the British Empire. Murder,
mayhem, and crumpets abound in this romp through an empire on the verge of
collapse and a man tight-rope walking the line of aristocracy and depravity.’ http://www.sffringe.org/now.html. ‘In the title role, Gabriel Diamond moves from prim and proper to wild and
crazed, particularly in his encounters with the young, identical Throckmortonshire sisters Calliope (the good one) and Penelope
(her evil twin). Elizabeth Bullard is fantastic providing the contrast between
the two, particularly with “bad seed” Penelope, whose blood provides the key
ingredient for Dr. Jekyll’s experiments. The girls’
mum, Lady Throckmortonshire, is played by Christian Cagigal with glee; also in drag (a brilliant touch) is
Andrew Calabrese as the mad doctor’s mother, Euphoria Jekyll. Meanwhile, Jekyll’s sister Ambrosia (Erin Carter) is working
diligently to marry him off to the encouraging, and rich, Miss Dewthistle (Hannah Knapp)’ (review of March 2007 production
http://www.examiner.com/a-628602~Review___Chemical_Imbalance__an_original_comedy.html.
See also http://www.jonsimsctr.org/MatthewGrahamSmith.html.
Wilson wrote other versions of JH in 2005 (in
collaboration with Amy Lewis) and 2007.] 2007 Wilson, Lauren (2007). Dr Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde: A Strange Comedy. Dir. Seth Reichgott,
performed by the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble with James Goode (J/H) at the Alvina Krause Theatre (Bloomsburg, PA), April 19 - May 13
2007. ‘In
his quest to discover the secret behind man’s dual nature, Dr. Jekyll creates a
potion to bring out the worst in himself: Mr. Hyde. But you’ve never seen the
story quite like this before. Broad physical comedy, mistaken identity, and
stage combat bring you on a careening roller coaster ride of humor.’ Wilson adds identical twin 12-year-old sisters
Calliope and Penelope, one sweet, the other violent (a drop of her blood is
needed for the fatal potion, a drop of the others sister’s for the antidote)
Wilson wrote other versions of JH in 2005 (in collaboration with Amy Lewis) and
2006.] 2007 McKinnon, Andrew (2007). The Cabinet of Doctor Jekyll. By the Wayward Scot
company, with Vincent Friell and Martin Docherty, and
occasional contributions from McKinnon; electronic score (continuous soundscape) by David Bernard. Britannia Panopticon,
Glasgow 11th-12th May. [‘Andrew McKinnon’s cut-up
of Stevenson’s collected works for his Wayward Scot company mixes fiction,
poetry and biography to create a portrait of the artist holding up a huge
mirror to his own life through the written word.’ The Herald 14 May 2007. Later
performances at Broughton House, Kirkcudbright 15th-16th May, Holmwood House, Cathcart, Glasgow 18th-19th May. http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/featuresartsreview/display.var.1395208.0.0.php] 2007 Shane Mitchell (2007). The Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Performed by TBA Theatre, directed by
Erin Dagon Mitchell with Wayne Mitchell (Jekyll) and Shane Mitchell (Hyde). Grant Hall, Alaska Pacific University,
Anchorage (Alaska) 26-28 and 31 October 2007. [The actors Wayne and
Shane Mitchell are twins. Clearly presented as ‘horror classic’: ‘The
atmosphere is everything you'd want at Halloween. Fog rolls through the streets
of London as the screams of Hyde's victims tear through the theater. Of the 24
characters that appear, eight are dead by the end of the play, victims of
Hyde's murderous passions’. ]
2007 Doug Van Liew
and Rachel Carter (2007). The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Performed by the Oklahoma City Theatre Company with Joshua Irick
(as Jekyll/Hyde), Carol Klages (Mrs Poole), Ian
Clinton (Rev. Carew), Timothy Berg (Mr. Utterson),
and Rick Cheek (Dr. Lanyon). Civic Center Music Hall,
Oklahoma City, 27 October and 2-4 November 2007. [Reviewed negatively by Larry Laneer
in NewsOK.com (‘numbingly static’). As in the established recent tradition,
Hyde is no longer the Hollywood ape-man: ‘Compared to Jekyll, Hyde in this
production is downright suave and debonair. Hyde is insidiously evil rather
than horrifically repugnant’. ‘If you've read the book and wondered what Sir
Danvers and Hyde were talking about just before Hyde beats Sir Danvers to
death, Van Liew and Carter give their take on it, and
it provides a little — very little, albeit much needed — comic relief.’ http://newsok.com/article/3156694/1193358245] 2008 Jeffrey Hatcher (2008). Jekyll & Hyde / Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Directed by David Ira Goldstein, with R. Hamilton Wright (Jekyll), Ken Ruta - Stephen D’Ambrose - Mark
Anderson Phillips - Carrie Paff (Hyde), Anna Bullard
(Elizabeth Jelkes). Arizona Theatre Company (Tucson,
Arizona), Jan. 12 – Feb. 22;San José
Rep, May 10-June 8, 2008. Also directed by Jessica Thebus with Nick Sandys (Jekyll), Northlight Theatre, Chicago, Sept. 17 – October 26 2008.
Also directed by R. Hamilton Wright at A Contemporary Theater (ACT), Seattle, April 10 - May 10 2009, with Bradford Farwell ( Jekyll), and Deborah Failkow, David Anthony Lewis, David Pichette and Brandon Whitehead (as the four Hydes) ).
Also dir. by Tracy Brigden at the City Theatre, Pittsburgh, with David Whalen (Jekyll) and Kelly Boulware (one of the Hydes), 26 Oct - 8 Nov 2009. Also dir. by Jeff G. Rack at Theatre 40, Los Angeles, with Darren Tyler Morgan (Jekyll) and Scott Roberts (main Hyde actor), 21 Oct - 8 Nov 2009. [Hyde is played by four actors. There is an
older, imperious Hyde. There is a female, sensual Hyde (Carrie Paff). And there is an angry, tortured Hyde (Mark Anderson
Phillips), a sort of Caliban figure- twisted and brutish, but not without reason
to resent his lot. 2008 Donald Smith (2008). Jekyll and Hyde: A
Specimen. Scottish Storytelling
Centre, Edinburgh, 1 March 2008. [Irreverent 45-minute dramatization: ‘Robert Louis
Stevenson straight from the hip. Storytelling with style’.] 2009 Christina Patterson and David Radford (2009). The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Craigdarroch Castle, Victoria, BC, Canada. With David Radford (Jekyll) and Rod Peter Jr. (Hyde) and the Giggling Iguana theatre company, 24 Oct. – 1 Nov. 2009. 1902 Osbourne, Lloyd & Austin Strong (1902). Treasure
Island. A melodrama in Five Acts. [MS (dated 18 June 1902; also As’s colour drawings of each scene) at RLS Silverado
Museum; typescripts in Library of Congress, Beinecke
Library (McKay 7279, dated 18 June 1902, 94 pp) and RLS Silverado Museum.] [Recently performed by The
Peacock Players (a non-profit children’s theatre group) at the Court Street
Theatre, Nashua, New Hampshire, dir. by Timothy L’Ecuyer,
Oct. 13-22 2006 .] 1936 Fagan, James Bernard (1936). Treasure
Island. A play. London: Cassell.. 1938 Welles, Orson (1938). Treasure
Island. [radio broadcast: Mercury Theater on the Air,
July 1938; half in England, half on the Island; omits 'My Sea Adventure'; music
by Bernard Herrmann; available as CD (see Audiovisual Publishing page) and also
at http://www.unknown.nu/mercury/ in a downloadable
or "streaming" version] 1946 Treasure Island. A play in six scenes. London: H. F. W. Deane
& Sons 1947 Connell, Charles Henry (1947). Treasure
Island. A play, from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. London & Glasgow: Blackie &
Son (Troubadour Plays). 1947 *** Treasure Island. St James's
Theatre, London, withHarry Welchman
(Silver) and John Clark (Jim). 1954 Morgan, Malcolm (1954). Treasure Island. An
adventure in three acts. London: William Heinemann. 1955
Galeazzi, Luigi (1955). L' Isola del tesoro : Dramma in tre atti dal
celebre racconto di R L Stevenson. Milano: S. Majocchi 1973 Miles, Bernard & Josephine
Wilson (book), Hal Shaper (Lyrics), Cyril Ornadel
(Music) (1973). The Mermaid Theatre's Treasure Island, a musical adventure
in two acts. London: Weinberger. Also: Miles, Bernard, Peter Coe &
Josephine Wilson. Treasure Island, as presented at the Mermaid Theatre.
London: French. 1977 Way, Brian (1977). Treasure
Island, an original play based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Reston: Educational Arts Association. 1977 Moffatt,
Derry (ill. Tony Masero) (1977). Treasure Island,
adapted for Walt Disney productions' Screen Presentation. London: New
English Library. 1983 Harris, Aurand
(1983). Treasure Island: Playscript. [USA]:
Anchorage Press; ISBN: 0876022530. [Children’s play with music by Kevin Dunn] 1986 Hall, Willis & Denis King
(music) (1896). Treasure Island. London: French. 1991 Watson, Ara
(1991). Treasure Island. New York: Dramatists Play Service [originally
commissioned by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park] 1995 Stephenson, Rex (1995). Treasure
Island: Play - A Two-act Dramatisation. [USA]: IE Clark; ISBN: 0886804132 [Later performed on Sanibel Island, Florida.
Big-budget production planned for Broadway, the Belasco Theatre, for the 2007-8
season, to be directed by B.H. Barry. Morris is a former actor with the Royal
Shakespeare Company, now also a director and writer of children’s theatre.
Barry is a well-known fight-director.] 1997 Maines, Michael & Kim Adams (?1997). Treasure
Island [musical, Gaslight Theatre, Tucson, USA;
Zachary Miller as Jim] 1997 Dikla Katz (1997?). [Treasure Island]. With Avi
Zlicha and the Key Theatre (Avi
Zlicha and Dikla Katz). Tel
Aviv Museum of Art, December 10, 12 2007. [Hebrew theatre. Zlicha
plays Jim Hawkins, while the other characters are all puppet-theatre objects
that come to life as the tale progresses. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196834824530&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull] 2000 Reeves, Drew (2000). Treasure
Island. [Atlanta Kaleidoscope Children's
Theatre/Shakespeare Tavern, Mar 11-Apr 1 2000] 2000 Manfridi, Giuseppe (2000). Navigando
verso l'isola del tesoro / L’isola del tesoro. [A two-part, two-venue
dramatization of Treasure Island performed by the Teatro
stabile del Veneto: Part 1 in Padua (Porta Portello; 7 July 2000, repeat performance on 8th); Part 2
(set on Treasure Island) in Venice (Teatro Verde, Isola di San Giorgio; 11 July 2000). Then (as L’isola del tesoro)
on a tour of Italian tehatres in 2001-2. Jim was played by an actress (Gaia Aprea) in a
way that reminded one critic of Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, so adding a certain ambiguous
eroticism in relations with Sulver Luigi Diliberti. Manfridi’s style was
seen as ‘cinematografic’ (continual alternations
between present and past, memory and imagination).] 2001 Boone, Alan (2001). L'île au
Trésor. [Compagnie La Machine à rêver,
Théâtre de Cherbourg, France; 30 Jan-3 Feb 2001;
deliberate use of gaps and inexplicable repetition; aim to make the spectator
create through imagination; memorable tableaux; theme of the double.
Interpreted by two actors (whose basic roles are Jim's mother and Silver)
wearing various costumes; Jim is not represented but is referred to; changes in
the book's narrator are marked by clear 'theatrical moments'] 2001 Treasure Island. [The Tobacco Factory, Bristol, with music and songs. 14 Dec 2001-19 January
2002. Story line close to the book.] 2001 Treasure Island. Adapted and performed by Ian Johnstone and Andy Cannon for Wee Stories Theatre for
Children [Edinburgh Festival, 2001; not all of the original characters were
under-taken by the duo: Dr Livesey was excised,
smoothly enough, the parrot was managed by an umbrella-handle, and Ben Gunn by
a floor-mop; Trelawney possibly gay]. 2002 Huck, Karl and the ‘Homunkulus
Figurentheater’ (2002 but created before that date). Die
Schatzinsel[Treasure Island; puppet dramatization; KH’s repertoire also
includes RLS's Bottle Imp; KH is based on the holiday island of Hiddensee (near Rugen in NE Germany), where in the summer
season he is to be found in his ‘See-Buhne’, and at
other times of the year tours his productions in Europe and Scandinavia; his
address is: Wallweg 2, 18565 Vitte,
Germany; in May 2002 he performed Treasure Island for 5 days at 17 Heriot Row in Edinburgh] 2002 (or
earlier) Donnelly, Mary
and George L.O. Strid (?2002). Treasure Island.
Paoli, Penn.:: J.W. Pepper & Son.[A 55-minute 3-act musical for schools with
eight musical numbers] 2002 Compagnie Sortie de Route (Lyon, France)
(2002). L’île au trésor. Directors Thierry Chantrel & Bruno Fontaine.
[The scenery is
inspired by pop-up books.] 2004? Steve and Kathy Hotchner
(?2004). Treasure Island. Woodstock, Il: Dramatic Publishing. At Slane College, Jan. 2004. Little Red Wagon Touring Theatre
tour June-August 2006. 2005/6 Schmiedl,
Eric (2005). Treasure Island. Scheduled to be produced by the Alabama
Shakespeare Festival in their 2005/2006 mainstage
season. 2005 Eiler,
Jim (book), Jim Eiler & Jeanne Bargy(music)
(2005). Treasure Island. Mount Vernon Community Children’s Theatre, dir.
Christopher Wolfe; Carl Sandburg Middle School, 8428 Fort Hunt Road, Alexandria,
November 2005. Also performed by Ipswich Middle School, Ipswich, MA, 10-11 Feb.
2006 [A musical adaptation for children] 2005 Ludwig, Ken (2005). Treasure
Island. World première scheduled for the Alley Theatre, Houston, May 20-27,
2007; director Gregory Boyd with
Elizabeth Bunch (Jim) and James Black (Silver). The play was presented at The
4th Annual Page-to-Stage New Play Festival Sep 3 - 5, 2005, John
F. Kennedy Center, Washington DC. Also at the Theatre
Royal Haymarket, London, dir. Sean Holmes with with
Keith Allen (Silver) from November 7 2008. Music by Tom Haines and Ross Hughes. Also at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, dir. Sean Holmes with with Keith Allen (Silver) from November 7 2008.
[The Houston production doesn’t seem to have been a musical; but Bethesda credits have ‘composer: Matthew M. Nielson’, and the London credits have ‘Music by Tom Haines and Ross Hughes’.
Ludwig is author of numerous Broadway and West End
hits; Positive review in Variety http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117933799.html?categoryid=33&cs=1 ‘Black spot’ fromHoustonPress
http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-05-31/culture/treasure-island] 2006 Heisel,
John (2006). Treasure island. Children’s Drama Company, Columbus
Performing Arts Center, Columbis,
Ohio, dir. John Heisel. Feb. 11-19 2006. 2006 Bent, Simon (2006). Under the
Black Flag (subtitled: The early life, adventures and pyracies of the Famous Long John Silver before he lost his
leg). Performed at The Globe Theatre, London, summer 2006, dir. Roxana Silbert. [John Silver (Cal MacAninch), unfortunate enough to earn the disfavour of
Cromwell, is press-ganged away from his wife and daughter, for a life in the
colonies, where he is later captured by pirates. We learn why he is called
‘Long’, how he lost a leg, and we get background to Billy Bones and One-eyed
(later, Blind) Pew. We don’t learn, however, how the treasure got to Treasure
Island.] 2006 Mizzi, Anton (book) & Alfred Arnold
(music). Treasure Island Dir. Anton Mizzo. Don
Bosco Oratory Theatre in Sliema,
Malta, 19 and 25 November 2006. Musical play in Maltese. 2006 Storybook Theatre (Monterey Peninsula
College) (2006). Treasure Island. The Studio Theatre at MPC, Feb. 10-26
2006. [An audience-participation performance loosely based
Stevenson’s classic adventure story.] 2006 Whelihan, Paul (book), Ian August (lyrics), Mark Baron
(music) (2006). Treasure Island. Performed by Luna
Stage (Montclair, NJ), at the Running Rabbit Family Theatre (Monmouth
University, West Long Branch, NJ), Dec. 8-30 2006. 2007 Karen Louise Hebden
& Brian Protheroe (music) (2007). Treasure
Island. Dir. Karen Louise Hebden with Daniel Hinchliffe (Jim) and Glyn Kerslake
(Silver). Derby Playhouse, 24 Nov- 2007 – 26 January 2008. Also Rose Theatre, Kingston-on-Thames, dir. Stephen Unwin with Harry McEntire (Jim) and Richard Bremmer (Silver),11 December 2009 to 9 January 2010. [‘Karen Louise Hebden's adaptation… is a swaggering synthesis of cannon
smoke, sea-shanties and three-cornered hats, showing that provincial theatre
can aspire to musical spectacle on a grand scale…. Long John Silver emerges
here as a complex creation… a contemplative opportunist whose readiness to
switch sides is the mark of a man who instinctively knows which way the wind is
blowing.’ The Guardian 14.12.07 http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/reviews/story/0,,2227541,00.html. The production was presented by a concerted effort (with many staff
working unpaid) in the face of the theatre’s financial difficulties. Most of the dialogue is from Stevenson.] 2007 Brad Jackson & Alex Vorse (2007). Treasure Island. Casa Mañana Theatre, Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 28-Oct. 14 2007.
Musical adaptation. 2007 Paul Mastrangelo
(2007). Treasure Island. Directed by Jackie Osterman
with music by Paul Osterman. Performed by Hartford
Players Youth Theatre and Capitol Theatre Rising Stars Program. Capitol Theatre
Performing Arts Center, Rome (NY), November 9-10,
2007. 2007 Brett Smock (book) & Corinne Aquilina (music) (2007). Treasure Island. Produced by
Rochester Children’s Theatre at Nazareth College Arts Center
(Pittsford), with Michael Centanni (Jim) and Andrew
Hammond (Silver), 24-5 and 30-31 March 2007. 2007 Winget,
James (2007). Treasure Island. Performed by the Impossible Players, dir.
Michael Lynch, at the Impossible Players' Playhouse, Pueblo (USA), with David
J. McNeilly (Silver) and Jason Wells (Jim), April
27-28 and May 2-5 2007.
Where Stevenson's story foreshadowed Freud, Hatcher uses it to offer a critique of
Freudian theory, pointing out that the neat division between conscious and
subconscious, or id and ego, doesn't quite capture messy reality. And though Jekyll's "tincture" has always been suggestive of
drugs, here the addiction motif is more explicit than metaphorical. http://www.azcentral.com/ent/arts/articles/0213jekyll0213.html.
'Hatcher's novel chorus of Hydes, once you get used to it, makes for some transfixing moments in R. Hamilton Wright's staging of the script, which also has some weaknesses on the way to achieving white-knuckle suspense and dramatic momentum'
(Misha Berson, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2009076712_zart20jekyll.html)
]
2008
Tina Kronis (choreography) and Richard Alger (script) (2008).
Model Behavior. Theatre Movement Bazaar directed by Tina Kronis, with Jacob Sidney (Jekyll/ Hyde).
First at the 24th St. Theatre, Los Angeles, June 28 2008 (and again Feb. 2009); then Disney/Calarts Theater, Los Angeles, July 17-9 2008.
[Director-choreographer Tina Kronis arranges her performers in shifting symmetrical formations to underscore the story’s theme of duality. ‘The acclaimed team of Tina Kronis and Richard Alger shred the story of Jekyll and Hyde into a collage of movement, theater and song that careens through cultural obsessions with mesmerism, CSI,
the modeling industry, and more. Drawing on varied source materials, the ensemble creates a truly hybrid performance that morphs theatrical expression into dance athleticism to tell the tale of
a group of men who encounter a brutal murder--and their own dual nature.’ “From tragic to bawdy to the outlandishly absurd … with nary a visual or aural flaw.” L.A. Weekly.
http://redcat.org/season/0708/dan/now1.php ]
[45-minute audience-participation play for children.
‘the audience joins the actors to create a storm at sea, a mosquito-infested
jungle, and a treasure cave, while five brave young souls from the audience
come aboard to become crew mates.’ ]
[This
production features a cast of deaf and hearing actors and includes sign
interpretation throughout.]
[Neal Foster, BSC's actor/manager said in an intewrview: ‘There is a wonderful story in Stevenson's great novel which has got lost in recent pantomime productions of the book. The BSC is doing what it does best and going back to the original story to reintroduce this fantastically exciting tale to the theatre in all its dramatic glory.’; but the Guardian critic thought otherwise: ‘two hours that is mercifully brisk, but emotionally one-dimensional’ http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/reviews/story/0,,2261929,00.html]
2008. Kevin Hendrickson & Loren Hoskins (2008). The Ghosts of Treasure Island. With Captain Bogg & Salty Oregon Children’s Theatre, Keller Auditorium, Portland, April 20, 26 & 27 2008.2008 Curt Dale Clark (book and lyrics) & Marc Robin (music) (2008). Treasure Island: A Musical Adventure. Directed by Marc Robin, with John Herrera (Silver) and Rick Desloge alternating with Dan Scott (Jim Hawkins). Fulton Opera House (Lancaster, PA), 6-22 March 2008.
[2008 is the year of the announced première, though Fulton Opera House admits that the musical has had ‘years of extensive development at several theatres in Chicago and elsewhere’.An ‘epic musical’ (in the spirit of the musical Les Miserables) ‘about a boy coming of age with the help of a motley crew of pirates and an adventure that tests his spirit and his courage. http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/217832]
2009 Brenda Bell (music and book) & Michael Sgouros (lyrics) (2009). Treasure Island by Literally Alive Theatre, with Meg Lanzarone (Jim) at the Players Theatre, New York, February 11 - May 10 2009.
[Literally Alive is a New York City based family theatre company that produces original musicals based on classic literature.]
2009 John Hildret (2009). Treasure Island. Dir. Robert Kauzlaric, Lifeline Theatre, Chicago: 21 Sept. – 1 Nov. 2009. And Lee Auditorium, St Louis, 6-8 November 2009 (Missouri History Museum, Performing Arts Series).
2009 Steve Emerson (2009). Treasure Island. Theatre for Young America, June 23 - July 3, 2009, H&R Block City Stage, Union Station, Kansas City, MO..
2009 Andrew Pollard (2009). Treasure Island. Music by Jenni Molloy. With Graeme Dalling (Jim) and David Tarkenter (Silver). Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, 26 Nov-5 Dec 2009 (then touring to Huddersfield and Milton Keynes).
[Cast of six; Pew is a sinister puppet manipulkated by three actors.]
2009 [St Louis Shakespeare] (2009). Treasure Island. Directed by Jerry Vogel. With Emily Jackoway (Jim) and Tom Kopp (Silver). Lee Auditorium in the Missouri History Museum, November 6 - 15, 2009. 1909 Mouezy-Eon, André &
Paul Armont (1909). Les Nuits du Hampton Club.
[grand-guignol adaptation of 'The Suicide Club' (Stott 1994: 76); dates
of 1917 and 1928 also found—perhaps revivals] 1929 Abercrombie Anderson, Hugh (1929). The
Suicide Club. 1947 Hinsdale, Harriet (1947). Robert
Louis Stevenson. A Play. Caldwell, Ohio: Caxton Printers. 1947: Connell, Charles Henry
(1947). Kidnapped. A
play, from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son
(Troubadour Plays). 1975
Bill Bryden (libretto), Robin Orr [1909-2006] (music) (1975).
Hermiston.
Scottish Opera, Edinburgh, August 27 1975.
1987 Knight, Alanna.
Across The Plains. BBC 1. [Adaptation of The Amateur
Emigrant] **** Gregory, David. The Black Arrow
[DG is
an American playwright - he was working on this in 1998] **** Jessop, G.H. & A.M. Moore
(****). Kidnapped. A play in five acts. [Typescript, 93 pp. (Beinecke 725)] 1994 Johnson, Donald (1994). The
Bottle Imp. Radio adaptation broadcast (?BBC Scotland) 6 December 1994. 1995 Cross, Felix (1995). The Bottle Imp.
Musical. University of Warwick Music Centre.. 1995 ***. McGregor’s Trap [from Kidnapped,
at 1995 Edinburgh Fringe] 1999 Hannan,
Martin. Marky. (6-15 Aug. 1999, Famous Grouse Theatre,
Edinburgh; Counterfeiters Theatre Company [Glasgow], dir. John Clyde) [updated version of
'Markheim'] 2000 Jones, William B., Jr. (2000). Home
From Sea: An Inland Voyage Through the World of Robert Louis Stevenson. [readers' theatre
piece containing excerpts from letters; poems, short stories; novels; and
travel writings; performed during "RLS 2000: Robert Louis Stevenson in
Literature and Popular Culture," at the Main Library, Little Rock,
Arkansas, 10 November 2000.] 2000 Chapman, Wayne A. (2000). The
Beach of Falesà [incorporating music and
dance; part of the "RLS 2000" events; performed by the Performance
Arts Department, University of Arkansas at Little Rock]. 2000 Rosen, Louis, Arthur Perlman &
Charlotte Maier (book); Louis Rosen (music) (2000). A Child's Garden. [dir. Lori
Steinberg, chor. Robert La Fosse, The Melting Pot
Theatre company at Theatre 3 (New York); December 5th (previews) -
January 14th; a free interpretation of a part of Stevenson's life and
works: Stevenson in San Francisco in 1880 with writer's block thinks back to
the final summer of his childhood in his grandfather's garden and is inspired
to start the sketches that will become A Child's Garden of Verses] 2003 Kidnapped
[musical]. [Developed from the 1995 McGregor’s Trap. Starring Chesney Hawkes. Planned for Edinbugh
2003] 2003 McCrone, Alasdair & Robert
Paterson (2003). Kidnapped. [director Alasdair
McCrone, ‘soundscape’ by John Davidson; a
co-production by Mull Theatre and Perth Theatre; at Perth Theatre, 19 Sept.-4
Oct. 2003, then touring the Highlands and Islands (and Mussselburgh)
in October and November; not clear if this is connected with the previous item.
Reviews and Production photos: http://www.mulltheatre.com/ (What’s on > Kidnapped > Herald Review). “what
sets this production apart is the near spectral presence of fiddler and
composer John Davidson onstage throughout.”.] 2005 Chaumette, Christophe (2005). Voyages avec un âne dans les Cévennes. Théâtre S’amourailles,
director Romain Fohr, actor Christophe Chaumette. Performed
in Lozère in July 2005, then at the Avignon Festival
‘Off’ (Hôtel Mercure Pont d’Avignon), 15-30 July 2005; Edinburgh Fringe Festival 7-28
August 2005 (Citrus Club, Grindlay Street) 2005 Thane, Adele (2005). ‘The Bottle Imp’. Plays 64.vii:
26-35. One act. 2006 Carnegie, John (2006). Hermiston. Performed (as part of the
Edinburgh Festival) by the Rowan Tree Theatre Company, dir. John Carnegie, with
Michael Mackenzie (Lord
Hermiston), Grant O’Rourke (Archie Weir) and Isabella Jarrett (Kirstie Elliott), at the Netherbow
Theatre, Edinburgh, 1-26 August 2006. 2007 Smith, Donald (2007). ‘Kidnapped -
When Kilts Were Banned’. Parody retelling of Stevenson’s story, 16 Feb. 2007,
11 am, 2 pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre. 2007 ‘Ticonderoga - Shadow Theatre Workshop’ -
excerpt from Clydebuilt’s shadow theatre production
of Stevenson’s Scottish/American frontier ghost-story poem ‘Ticonderoga’. 15
Feb. 2007, 11 am, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh. 2007Catriona. Meanwhile Theatre Company (Prestonpans,
Scotland), The Gothenburg, Prestonpans, 9-10 Aug.
2007; 13-18th Aug., 20- 25 Aug. 2007, The Greenside, Edinburgh. 2007 Laura Chiotasso & Costantino Sarnelli
(2007). Ho sognato di Stevenson. [I dreamt of Stevenson]. Performed by members of Le Cercle
Rouge, Auditorium Bertello, Borgo
San Dalmazzo (Cuneo, Italy), 6 October 2007. [Four travellers are marooned late at night in
a metro station and, while waiting for the promised last train, tell
each other stories from Stevenson’s Fables. The situation of the travellers is reflected both in the uncertain reality
created by interacting levels of representation (actors and film) as well as
inthe cruel absurdity of the Fables
themselves—several of which are repeated in different versions and media in a
parallel exploration of sonorities and musical form.] 2007 Royal, Peter (2007). ‘A Lodging for the Night’, in
U.K. Quartet, four dramatized short stories by British Isles writers.
Dir. Peter Royal, performed by pupils of Bronxville High School, NY, at
Bronxville Women’s Club, 21-2 June 2007 [This ‘chamber theater’ production (staged, memorized
reader’s theatre without props) will be taken to the American High School
Theatre Festival, part of the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, August
2007. ]
Anderson (1890-1965), Canadian playwright and theatre
manager, lived and worked in New York.
[‘Hermiston belongs to that unfortunate species of opera given a poor reception because
of their libretti. It begins sensationally with a hanging, and continues to include all
the trappings of melodrama: rape, murder, mad scene, death from heart attack, suicide.
The musical drama doesn't work like that however. The first act, for example, is a beautifully
judged dramatic sequence from its savage and sustained opening choral scene to a sinister scene
between father and son and a restless one between Archie and the housekeeper, which gradually
opens out into a tender and enchanting scene between Archie and the housekeeper's niece.
Here is that rare thing, a modern love duet which depicts first awakenings and responses
unhurriedly and convincingly. The mood is eventually broken and the act ended by the arrival
of Archie's boorish friend Frank.’ (Ian Kemp. ‘Robin Orr at 90: Age of Gold’, The Musical Times,
Spring 1999. For more on the opera, see The Musical Times, Vol. 116, No. 1590 (Aug., 1975): 700-702.]
[Script
in the ‘Scottish Plays’ collection on the University of Glasgow STELLA site.]
[Chaumette has
been producing shows based on Stevenson’s texts and in Cévennes
area for several years (for example, Stevenson chez les camisards
at the Pont de Montvert Festival in April 2002). The
company walked the Stevenson route 13 days (not clear in which year, perhaps
1998) performing at night in the towns and villages passed through, creating a
contemporary Road Theatre. The Voyages is a one-actor piece, combining
‘sounds, images, alchemy, with both French and English language’.]